Javascript not working after forward from servlet

Question

Hi,
I have a jsp page which uses a html and a javascript file to generate a javascript calendar for date entry. The html doc is in the same directory as the jsp page and the javascript is in another directory.
The calendar works fine when the jsp loads first.
On submitting the form, the page calls a servlet which does some processing and then forwards to the same jsp using a requestdispatcher. Now the calendar script doesnt work anymore. How to solve this prob.
Thanx.
gopal

Answer 1

Most likely the browser is looking for the javascript files in the wrong location. When you do a requestdispatcher the browser is not aware of it and it continues to keep the url of the servlet in the browser. If the JSP calls any images, javascript files or other resources using a relative path then the browser looks for these items rleative to the path that it has in the address bar.
You can solve this by using absolute paths for all resources (ie start with a "/") or you can use the HTML BASE tag in the JSP which the browser will use to resolve paths instead of the url in the address bar.